I have been asked by a client to have a calendar which can be updated by them on one of their pages. I remembered seeing a google calendar that had been embedded on a page of the freeway website. The address for the calendar is: http://softpress.com/freewaymarketing.php.
I have a google account and have had a look at Calendar but couldn’t figure out how to get the calendar from the page in my google account to the page of the client’s website.
Sometime around 14/10/08 (at 05:25 -0400) Fergus T said:
I have been asked by a client to have a calendar which can be
updated by them on one of their pages.
If they use a Mac then Mike Yenco’s Agenda utility could be the ideal
solution. He even includes Freeway templates for customising Agenda’s
web layouts, so you can weave it seamlessly into your site design
look ‘n’ feel then hand it over to them to manage.
There is a separate admin login for this that allows new events to be added or old ones deleted. It is the closest calendar script I could find to what I wanted that doesn’t have all the unneccessary bells and whistles. It does require setting up a MySQL database. Took me a bit a snooping with CSSEdit to get all the css correctly applied to the different calendar elements.
I have a google account and have had a look at Calendar but couldn’t figure out how to get the calendar from the page in my google account to the page of the client’s website.
When I was searching (quite alot actually) through many different calendars I did run accross a php script that pulled in a published Google calendar to your page. Don’t remember the name but it was on the Hotscripts.com site. Search through the php section for iCal or Google calendar.
Hi Fergus,
Be sure to check your embedded google calendar in IE. I just did this for a client and for some reason he was not able to view the calendar in explorer. I ended up having to insert an iframe and enter the ‘raw’ url of the google calendar which seemed to work.
Rich
I had a look at the site/calendar below and wanted to know what the
name of the calendar script is or where I can get it? I assume that
you built the site. It looks to be just what I need.
Thanks,
Todd
On Oct 14, 2008, at 1:49 PM, chuckamuck wrote:
I have been asked by a client to have a calendar which can be
updated by them on one of their pages.
There is a separate admin login for this that allows new events to
be added or old ones deleted. It is the closest calendar script I
could find to what I wanted that doesn’t have all the unneccessary
bells and whistles. It does require setting up a MySQL database.
Took me a bit a snooping with CSSEdit to get all the css correctly
applied to the different calendar elements.
It isn’t free, but it is reasonable. There is actually a search feature included also but I did not use it. The calendar view is a generated table that uses standard php date functions to determine the month and day. The rest comes from the MySQL database for the events.
The one bad thing about it is you cannot set repeating events or events that happen over a span of days. Each one has to be input separately.
Thanks. Do you know if it will generate a pop-up when mousing over an
event/date? I didn’t see anything like that in the admin or demo so
I’m guessing it’s not a feature.
It isn’t free, but it is reasonable. There is actually a search
feature included also but I did not use it. The calendar view is a
generated table that uses standard php date functions to determine
the month and day. The rest comes from the MySQL database for the
events.
The one bad thing about it is you cannot set repeating events or
events that happen over a span of days. Each one has to be input
separately.
Do you know if it will generate a pop-up when mousing over an
event/date? I didn’t see anything like that in the admin or demo so
I’m guessing it’s not a feature.
No, what you see on the demo page is what you get. It’s not difficult to set up, other than deciphering the classes to apply styles to.
I have found calendars that do have popups, but they also do so many other things that I never needed so I didn’t bother with them.
Hi Fergus,
Be sure to check your embedded google calendar in IE. I just did this for a client and for some reason he was not able to view the calendar in explorer. I ended up having to insert an iframe and enter the ‘raw’ url of the google calendar which seemed to work.
Depending on which version of IE and/or Windows, the calendar isn’t there. I get variations of this message on the page: “Events from one or more calendars could not be shown here because you do not have the permission to view them.”
Again (I guess), depending on which version of Windows and/or IE, the results range from a large white space under the above message to being able to see the calendar with no events posted.
That said, these questions:
How do I "enter the ‘raw’ url of the google calendar into an iFrame?
In your google calendar find the “settings” tab and from there the “calendar details tab” toward the bottom of this area there is a box that reads “Calendar Address:” and has three choices in colored boxes, “xml”, “ical” and “html” , click the “html” box and a url address for your calendar should appear, copy that address for use in step 2.
(I can’t remember if the iframe action came as a standard feature in 5 pro or if I had to go and get it somewhere) Anyway in Freeway go to Insert → Action Item → IFrame, in the action palette that appears the first line is for url, select “other” then “external” and the paste the url that you grabbed from the google calendar.
Apparently, it’s not just an IE issue. A buddy of mine checked it on machines running XP and Vista at the Boys and Girls Club he manages. Regardless of the browser - IE, Safari, Firefox and AOL - he got the previously mentioned message.
I’m getting this error on Mac OS X / Safari 3 and Firefox 2.
Check to see if this calendar has been set to be completely public or
not in the Google Calendar interface.
Walter
On Jan 26, 2009, at 5:44 PM, Mark Rainwater wrote:
Depending on which version of IE and/or Windows, the calendar isn’t
there. I get variations of this message on the page: “Events from
one or more calendars could not be shown here because you do not
have the permission to view them.”